Metallic barrel



H. W. AVERY.' mamuc BARBEL. APPLICATION FIL ED.IO V. 211 I9.

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Patented Oct. 28,1919,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. AVERY, F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

METALLIC BARREL.

Specification of Letters 'Patent.

Patented Oct. 28, 1919.

Application filed Kovember 27, 1914. Serial No. 874,133.

, and exact description.

When. a barrel stands in the open, exposed to the weather, water is liable to accumulate on the head inside the chime. This does not much matter with wooden barrels, but with metallic barrels this accumulation of water induces the rusting of the metal. Moreover, in metallic, barrels the bung, is usually a metallic tube fixed in the head. It is particularly objectionable that water shall accumulate on the head to a depth which will allow it to flow over the top of the generally open bung, and 1nto the barrel.

The object of the invention is to provide a construction of metallic barrels such that the accumulation of water of a depth sufiicient to flow over the top of the bung will be impossible, and such that the removal of all water from the head will be easy.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts shown in the drawing hereinafter described and definitely pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side eleva tion, partly broken away, of a metallic barrel embodying the invention; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a part of the upper end of the barrel in the plane indicated by line 2-2 on Fig.1.

Referring to parts by letters, A represents the barrel body; B the head thereof, which, in accordance with common practice, is slightly concave externally; D represents the chime, which is substantially U-shaped in cross-section. These parts are all formed integrally, by drawing a metal sheet into the proper shape by means of proper dies and machinery. The chime is in effect a rib, U-shaped in cross-section which surrounds the head as an upward extension of thebody. C represents a metallic bung of ordinary construction, which is secured in the head, but in such wise that it does not pro ect up as high as the top edge of the chime.

In one or both of the chimes a drainage groove (Z is formed. With the particular barrel construction shown this groove is formed by bending the metal into the re- I quired shape. The bottom of this groove is substantially flush with the adjacent surface of the head and is below the top of the bung. 7

Obviously, water can never accumulate on the head to a depth such as will permit it to flow over the top of the bung and into the barrel. Moreover, by slightly rocking the barrel any water on the head thereof may be made to run off through the said groove.

While the invention i shown in connection with a barrel of which the head, chime, and ad acent part of the body, are integral parts of the same piece of metal, it is obviously adapted for embodiment in metallic barrels having other specific characteristics of construction-such as when the head is formed separately and set into the barrel below the top edges of the body.

Having described my invention, what I clalm is:

A metallic barrel having a concave head in WlllGh a hung is secured, and having around the margin of said head an upwardly projecting chime. in which is a drainage groove whose bottom is below the upper end of said bung.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY W. AVERY.-

L. I. PORTER. 

